Reason Writers Around Town: Radley Balko on the Drug War's Collateral Damage for Culture11
As part of the right-ish web 'zine Culture11's symposium on the drug war, Reason senior editor Radley Balko details the long list of collateral casualties caused by drug prohibition.
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Out-fucking-standing article. Kilokudos are due Radley Balko, the most effective anti-drug war advocate in the nation today.
Reasonoids, please E-mail his op-ed to a friend who’s not in the choir.
Radley goes to 11.
Seriously outstanding.
At this point there is no longer even so much as a “good faith” argument in support of the drug war. Anyone still supporting it is either evil or uninformed.
Props for absolutely schooling the pro-prohibition guy.
dhex, on another site, linked to Balko’s dismantling of Freddoso on Blogginheads.tv in regards to this article.
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/17092
Did somebody link that somewhere already?
The climax came in 1986, when Maryland basketball phenom and Boston Celtics draft pick Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose.
Who is the only Celtic under six feet?
Len Bias.
(That one never gets old.)
Fantastic piece; accessible and comprehensive. You are a patriot and hero, Balko.
Drugs should be free.
Fuck Len Bias. The real tragic coke death in 1986 was Don Rogers. Cost the Browns a Super Bowl or two.
Tofu ruins everything.
The food of the same name sucks as well.
I love how the printer friendly version of the article, isn’t. What a waste of paper.
broken record alert: you did fucking school him Balko. You were more expressive and informed than your sparring partner and had more specifics to spear him with. Beautiful.
And I am going to send that article to parents/friends/critics because of its beauticity. Not sure if that’s a word. But it is now.